Terminus by Ryan Howse – SPFBO Review: And Then There Were Six
Laura M. Hughes
The SPFBO team are making steady progress in our search for a finalist. To avoid cruelly stretching things out, we’ll be posting individual reviews for those who don’t make it…
Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off (SPFBO)
Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off #2: Our Final Seven
A.F.E. Smith
After much deliberation, the Fantasy-Faction reviewing team has narrowed down the entries in our group to seven. Our task now is to read and discuss these books more closely, with…
Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off #2: Getting Close To The End…
The Fantasy-Faction SPFBO team are on the verge of announcing their top seven books! But first, here are a final set of five that didn’t quite make the cut. It…
Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off #2: Farewell To Another Five
Writing fiction is like painting Rorschach cards: everyone sees (and feels) something different when looking at what you’ve created. Every review is subjective. And as AFE and GR have observed…
Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off #2: Another Five Fall
Hot on the heels of the last update, here are another five books to which we are sadly saying goodbye. Again, these books all have something to recommend them –…
Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off #2: The Next Five
Geoff Matthews
It has been a little while since our last update, but the pace should pick up a little now. As of 24th July, every book we were given has had…
Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off #2: The Fall of the Three
Everything needs an evocative title to draw the reader in and, whilst not quite the hyperbole of a Sun newspaper headline, these three haven’t truly fallen. It is more to…
Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off #2: One Reader’s Initial Thoughts
I’m one of Fantasy-Faction’s readers for this year’s Self-Published Fantasy Blog Off (SPFBO). And now that I’ve read the first chapters of all the books in our set, I thought…
Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off #2: Cover Up?
We’ve had a look at the covers to all 30 books on the Fantasy-Faction list for the Self-Published Fantasy Blog Off and picked our favourite three. Why did we do…
Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off #2: The Self-Pub Strikes Back
Last year’s Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off gathered a lot of interest across Twitter, Facebook and forums. At Mark Lawrence’s request, ten influential websites, bloggers and over 250 authors got together and…
City of Burning Shadows by Barbara J. Webb
Today’s review features another one of Mark Lawrence’s Self-Published Fantasy Blog Off Finalists. This will be Fantasy-Faction’s ninth review of the ten finalists and means we’ve got just one left…
Sins of a Sovereignty by Plague Jack
The story begins in a prologue where we meet the Spider-Witch, her husband and an elf named Adan. We don’t get to see them again until the epilogue. They serve…